AIA Announces 2016 CAE Education Facility Design Award Winners

Today, the AIA’s Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) announced twelve winners for the 2016 edition of its annual Education Facility Design Awards program. This year’s slew of awards illustrate an emphasis on innovative building technologies and a fundamental connection to surrounding communities.

The jury for the awards was led by Karina Ruiz, AIA, principal at Portland, Ore. and Seattle–based DOWA-IBI Group Architects; Christina Alvarez, CEO of public charter school Delaware Design-Lab High Schools, located across the The First State; Helena L. Jubany, FAIA, at Spokane, Wash–based firm NAC Architecture; Bruce Lindsey, AIA, deane of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis’ Sam Fox School; Zachary Neubauer, student at the University of Portland in Portland, Ore.; and Steve Ziger, AIA, partner of Baltimore, Md.–based Ziger/Snead Architects.

For moreinformation about each winner, click on the project names below.

Awards of Excellence

Henderson-Hopkins School, in Baltimore, Md., by Rogers Partners

Mundo Verde Billingual Public Charter School, in Washington, D.C., by Studio Twenty Seven Architecture

Regional Plant 2 Teaching Facility, in Raleigh, N.C., by Clark Nexsen

Richard Ivey Building, Western University, in London, Ontario, Canada, by Hariri Pontarini Architects

Seton Hill Arts Center, Seton Hill University, in Greensburg, Penn., by Design Lab Architects and BSHM Architects

Vol Walker Hall Renovation & The Steven L. Anderson Design Center, University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, Ark., by Marlon Blackwell Architects and Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects

Awards of Merit

Dwight-Englewood School Hajjar STEM Center, in Englewood, N.J., by Gensler

Fayetteville High School Addition and Renovation, in Fayetteville, Ark., by Hight Jackson Associates, DLR Group, and Marlon Blackwell Architects

GateWay Community College Integrated Education Building, in Phoenix, by SmithGroupJJR

Harvard Business School, Tata Hall, in Boston, by William Rawn Associates

Indian Springs School, in Birmingham, Ala., by Lake|Flato Architects and Architecture Works

Kennedy Child Study Center, in East Harlem, N.Y., by Pell Overton Architects